Dear mIRC User, It is with great joy that I announce a new mIRC version. mIRC's new version 5.82 released thursday, december 14th, 2000. You get this message because you have subscribed to the mIRC Release mailing list. The new mIRC is available from http://www.mirc.com/ and from all fast mirrors all over the world. We also give a few download addresses below. * How to upgrade? As you know mIRC is distributed in self-extracting cabinets that help you to install mIRC on your PC. Simply download the cabinet of your choice and run the installer. Follow the instructions the installer program gives to you. When upgrading all your old settings and scripts will stay as they were, if you want that. Read the questions the installer program asks with care and nothing can go wrong. You will be chatting with the new mIRC in no time. If you get stuck or if you want to find out more about a certain feature, just click on a Help button or browse the Help file and you should find lots of hints to help you out. * Where to download? For the latest download addresses just go to the mIRC website. As a special service to you we included some links below where mIRC is available already; - 32 bit mIRC, for Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME and NT. (mirc582t.exe) Thailand http://www.karnt.com/mirc/mirc582t.exe California http://www.kissland.com/mirc/mirc582t.exe UK http://users.powernet.co.uk/graye/mirc/mirc582t.exe Arizona http://www.ess-us.com/mirc/mirc582t.exe Mexico http://mirc.torreon.org/mirc582t.exe Australia http://mirc.eon.net.au/mirc582t.exe - 16 bit mIRC, for Windows 3.x. (mirc582s.exe) Thailand http://www.karnt.com/mirc/mirc582s.exe California http://www.kissland.com/mirc/mirc582s.exe UK http://users.powernet.co.uk/graye/mirc/mirc582s.exe Arizona http://www.ess-us.com/mirc/mirc582s.exe Mexico http://mirc.torreon.org/mirc582s.exe Australia http://mirc.eon.net.au/mirc582s.exe On the mIRC websites also the new mIRC FAQ version 46 (mfaq46hp.zip) is available. The FAQ answers a lot of questions regarding mIRC, IRC, DCC and the like. It also includes a tutorial on Aliases, Popups and on 'programming' the Tools/Remote section... As you know mIRC is shareware. It can be downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. Assuming you find that you enjoy using mIRC, it would be great if you registered your copy. Your one time registration fee licenses you to use your copy of mIRC and helps to support our continued work on mIRC. * Improvements and new features: This version has far too many improvements, new features and functions to mention here in detail. I'll point to some of the simple ones here - the ones you might encounter right away; A new mIRC version has released. The previous version performed very well during the past month. Still we thought several thingies needed a fix or update, leading to this new release. We recommend you to download and try the new mIRC v5.82! * Changes, Improvements and new features: This version has far too many improvements, new features and functions to mention here in detail. I'll point to some of the simple ones here - the ones you might encounter right away; - The support of the irc://address.or.server and .chat file formats has improved a lot. It will use DDE again so if a mIRC is already running on your PC, it is used. If no mIRC is found via DDE, a new mIRC is opened. It pops up a confirmation dialog if mIRC is already running and connected to a server. Read more on http://www.mirc.com/mirclink.html - By popular request the Names button is added back to the Channels Folder. - Try the new Control+L key combination. It will enable a line that marks the last line in the scrollback buffer of a window that you most probable have read. The line is updated if mIRC isn't the active window. Control+L turns the line on/off if it's currently visible. - Mousewheel support for microsoft mice is fixed. Some small thingy blocked its use in previous mIRC versions. A small bug in the DCC ignore settings dialog is fixed. Also the channel central, that was trying to set topic even if you didn't have ops, is fixed. You can open the channel central with the /channel command btw. - The 32bit mIRC will no longer work under Windows 3.1x with the Win32s 32-bit extentions. Since the 16 bit mIRC offers exactly the same as the 32 bit mIRC this makes no real difference to users of old Windows versions. Simply use the 16 bit mIRC. This change shaved 100k off the exe size and makes mIRC faster since no internal fixes are being used any more. I'm sure you will have a lot of fun with this new mIRC! About fifty functions, features, variables and identifiers are improved or added. Have fun exploring them! Please read the details of all changes in the versions.txt distributed with mIRC and available on the Web. Good luck and have fun with this new mIRC! Tjerk Vonck. __________________________________________________________________ * What is this and how can you unsubscribe from this mailing list? This mIRC Release mailing list is a low volume, low frequency announcement list. Typically you will get one message right after each mIRC release, only a few times a year. The last time was 2 months ago, in September. The list is not a discussion list, there will be only one poster - me, the listmaster of mIRC Co. Ltd. We will not use or abuse this list for other messages. It is very easy to get removed from this list. 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